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Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982

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Authors:
  1. Rustam Alexander

    1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Explores first-hand accounts of the lives, struggles and suffering of Soviet homosexual people
  • Provides a first person look at how it actually felt to be gay in the Soviet Union
  • Reveals many hitherto unexplored and unknown facets of the Soviet homosexual experience

Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Chapter 1: Introduction

    • Rustam Alexander
    Pages 1-8

  3. Chapter 2: Yan Goland and His ‘Aversion Therapy’

    • Rustam Alexander
    Pages 9-32

  4. Chapter 3: Leonid Bykov—An Autobiography

    • Rustam Alexander
    Pages 33-55

  5. Chapter 4: Leonid Bykov—Diary

    • Rustam Alexander
    Pages 57-87

  6. Chapter 5: Pavel Krotov—An Autobiography

    • Rustam Alexander
    Pages 89-106

  7. Chapter 6: Mark Orlov—An Autobiography

    • Rustam Alexander
    Pages 107-130

  8. Chapter 7: The Autobiography and Diary of Artem Smirnov

    • Rustam Alexander
    Pages 131-151

  9. Chapter 8: Conclusion

    • Rustam Alexander
    Pages 153-155

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 157-170
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About this book

This book examines the autobiographies and diaries of Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopathologist from Gorky. The examination of these unique and little known documents contributes to our scant knowledge about the practices that many would call a Soviet proto-type of 'aversion therapy'. It also helps us understand the way homosexual people faced "queer dilemmas" of the self and how they sought to reconcile their queer desire with being Soviet.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Rustam Alexander

About the author

Rustam Alexander is a historian, specializing in Russia and the USSR, who received his PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR (2023) and Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956-91: A Different History (2021). His work on the history of Soviet homosexuality has been published in Slavic Review, Russian History, Europe-Asia Studies and other academic journals.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982

  • Authors: Rustam Alexander

  • Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45870-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45869-9Published: 25 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45872-9Due: 26 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45870-5Published: 24 November 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9479

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 170

  • Topics: History, general, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Modern History, Gender Studies

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